Card Shark Collection™

I hope you finally address this one day: It’s easy to move a card to discard but accidentally drop it in the main playing area (table or foundation) - or some type of move not allowed. Especially on mobile devices, very easy. The app points out the error. But there is often no way of getting out of the situation, esp. if no un-do exists. I have tried to move the cards out of the area they don’t belong in, but to no avail. I have hard-closed the app, tried again later, but to no avail. The game will not go further, and the app will not let me get the card out of the un-allowed spot. With one or two games, sometimes I was able to move yet another card from ‘my playing hand’ to discard, and then all the others I had played on table or foundation plus both the attempted discards fell back to “my hand” of cards. Sometimes I had to go through those steps two or three times before it worked and let the game continue. But other times, the app won’t even do that. Please allow us a way to fix this hand-movement error, at least let us remove the card that ended up in the wrong spot back to where it was. Update on Oct 29, 2022. It is also difficult to play cards near the far left & right. Part of the card acts like the score icon if to far left and home icon if to far right side - and thus pulls up other screens. And the cards move spastically. End Update. Cards move spastically since latest update (fall 2022). It’s worse in some games than others. Any games with ‘rummy’ in the title are among the worst. What a shame, because this was one of my favorite game apps until now.

My original review was only three stars, because the app was harassing me to leave a review. I don't know if the app is able to somehow *tell* if I've left a review or not, but it's been over a year and I haven't been asked to leave a review since then. I'm raising my review from three to FIVE starts because, during the time since I wrote the review, Apple started forcing developers to share what kinds of information the app collects, and (at least according to the developer) this app doesn't collect ANY inforamation at all. In addition, I've been using the 1Blocker firewall (which blocks apps from being able to connect to certain domains, such as analytics and tracking services) and this firewall doesn't report any attempts to connect to such services while I've been using this app. To the developer: THANK YOU for respecting peoples' privacy, by not trying to collect any data yourself, AND by not using any third-party frameworks which collect data without your knowledge.

This collection of card games is the most exhaustive of any app I've seen. It contains almost every card game I've ever played and many I'd never heard of. I purchased it specifically for Canasta, but have played some of the other games as well. Many are solitaire variants and others are multiplayer, but unfortunately you can only play against the AI. In some of the multiplayer games, like Canasta and Gin Rummy, the AI is relatively easy to beat, and they are only 2-player versions. Sheepshead on the other hand is a very challenging 3-player game. It would be nice to be able to adjust the difficulty of the AI and the number of players; even better to be able to play against other humans. The app is strongest in the Solitaire department, but could be improved in quality and variety in the trick-taking and rummy type games. Contract Bridge is notably absent. Overall the poker games are disappointing, and I would not recommend it as a poker app. All things considered, it's hours of entertainment for not very much money, and has many games you won't find anywhere else. The interface is solid overall and it has never been buggy or crashed for me.